Valak portrait scene...

When Lorraine was in the room with the Valak portrait in it, I almost had a heart attack watching that scene! The room was dark, and she was slowly approaching the demon nun portrait. The first shot, from far, you can clearly see it's just the portrait. The camera cuts to Lorraine getting closer and closer. The camera then cuts to the portrait and we can clearly see it's now the the real Valak demon. Then, Lorraine very softly moves her hand towards the table lamp, and then it immediately shifts from the real Valak to the portrait once more.

Even though I was expecting this scene to happen as soon as I looked at the portrait, I gotta admit it was still scary as hell imho. The best thing is that this scene didn't end in a cheap jump scare, but actually built up the tension slowly, helped by a spooky ambient track. That was a very eerie scene.

This scene was even scarier to me because I watched this movie on my laptop with headphones, so my eyes wwere like 30-40 cm away from the screen. Any jump scare and my heart would just stop. Definitely spookier than watching this scene from a TV 2-3 metres away and listening to loudspeakers instead of headphones, which give you greater immersion. I was so scared that the demon nun was going to pop up from the portrait, that I partially covered up my eyes haha.

Overall, I liked this movie better than the first, I think it's way scarier than the first. Even the cliche jump scares were more effective, and the scenes with the Valak demon were the creepiest ones. I hope the Valak demon gets its own spinoff movie, like Annabelle got after the first one.